Profile: Chris Klomp, RFK Jr.'s top aide, manages HHS operations and personnel amid post-upheaval recovery
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Carmen Paun
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The article profiles Chris Klomp, a 45-year-old aide to RFK Jr. at the Department of Health and Human Services, who has been overseeing key personnel moves (including a CDC director nomination), driving initiatives on healthy eating, healthcare affordability, and fraud fighting. While Klomp handles management tasks that don't interest Kennedy, White House and HHS officials emphasize he is not running the department. Klomp's focus includes boosting morale and delivering results after a year of upheaval, with particular attention to hiring and policy issues that will resonate with Americans during a midterm-election year.
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· 3 pulledKlomp, 45, has directly overseen personnel moves, such as the nomination of a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has been driving a focus on healthy eating, improving health care affordability and fighting fraud.
White House and HHS officials said Klomp's role isn't to run the Health Department — that's still Kennedy's job — but to instead handle management tasks that don't excite Kennedy and to ensure the department focuses on policy issues that will resonate with most Americans during a midterm-election year.
Klomp has particularly concentrated on hiring aft
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